Posts Tagged ‘mobile phones’

Sometimes things fail, and it’s not because of market forces or bad luck, it’s because the product is just rubbish. Blackberry, once the pioneers of having loads of stuff you don’t need on your ...
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When you get a new phone, there's a very good chance it comes with automatic filters enabled. For example, it's very common for you have to explicitly request the ability to call premium-rate phone li...
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No fewer than six motorists headed for the city of Mildura in Australia have had to be rescued by the police in the last month after finding themselves stranded in inhospitable terrain. At least one s...
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Last week, I received an email about a problem my company was having with our online shop. I happened to be out of the office, so I pulled out my laptop, plugged in a 3G mobile broadband dongle, and w...
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Are you anonymous online? This song from triple-Grammy-winning artist Brad Paisley is well worth a listen regardless of your feelings for country music: I work down at the pizza pit And I drive an old...
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'Phantom limb' syndrome is suffered by many amputees, who feel strange and often painful sensations coming from their missing limbs. For a long time, doctors either dismissed these reports or thought ...
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According to analysts Gartner, 8.2 billion mobile apps were downloaded worldwide in 2010. In total, they generated $5.2 billion in revenue. Those figures are across all platforms so they include apps ...
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Mobile phone reception will be available throughout the London Tube network in time for the 2012 Olympics, Rupert Neate reported at the weekend. Excellent news, I thought. 28 million passengers per ye...
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As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, making calls is just a minor feature of today's mobile phones. In fact, as Clive Thompson wrote in Wired last week, the average number of calls that we make has been ...
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Mobile phone buyers in San Francisco will now have another statistic to weigh up as they consider inclusive minutes, 3G coverage and screen resolution: radiation absorption. In a frankly baffling move...
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